Submitted by PS
Canada’s Top Ten List of America’s Stupidity.
Usually I have a quite a commentary with each one of my posts but this a-boot says it all. I have been saying the same thing only in a different way.
Of course we look like idiots …. because we are Americans
Number 10) Only in America… could politicians talk about the greed of the
rich at a $35,000.00 per plate campaign fund-raising event.
Number 9) Only in America …could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a
black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black,
while only 14% of the population is black, – 40+% of all federal
entitlements goes to black Americans – that’s 3X the rate that goes to
whites, and 5X the rate that goes to Hispanics!
Number 8) Only in America… could they have had the two people most
responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury
Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee),
BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
Number 7) Only in America… can they have terrorists kill people in the
name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims
might be harmed by the backlash.
Number 6) Only in America… would they make people who want to legally
become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay
thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone
who sneaks into the country illegally just ‘magically’ become American
citizens (probably should be number one).
Number 5) Only in America… could the people who believe in balancing the
budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as
“extremists.”
Number 4) Only in America… could you need to present a driver’s license to
cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote!
Number 3) Only in America… could people demand the government investigate
whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went
up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon
Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
Number 2) Only in America… could the government collect more tax dollars
from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a TRILLION
dollars more than it has per year – for total spending of $7-MILLION PER
MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.
Number 1) Only in America… could the rich people – who pay 86% of all
income taxes – be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who
don’t pay any income taxes at all.
I have to add my own Number 1 + 1 – What other country in the world would donate 1.6 billion dollars to the Palestinians who turns around and funnels much of that donated money to the terrorists organization Hamas that are trying their best to dismantle the entire free world?
I have said it repeatedly; the USA is the laughing stock of the world. How can any intelligent person make sense of what our government does??
Like my dear cousins in Canada would say to our country’s leaders, “se la scarpa si adatta indossano.”
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